motivational speaking

Something must be missing in my life.

I shouldn't get so involved with something as stupid and vacuous and planned as "The Bachelorette". It's so terrible, yet I watch it weekly. This week my favourite bachelor left of his own will. He's from Chicago and has big eyes and seems normal and nice. There is talk that he'll be back in a couple weeks, the spoilers trying to spoil the season. What would be great is if Wes, who is the one with the girlfriend (and shitty songwriting skills; seriously, that song he kept singing to her? DREADFUL), winds up getting replaced by Ed once it comes out for real that he's got a girlfriend. I mean, Ed asked if he could keep the rose. That must mean something.

See? What the hell is wrong with me?!

Tonight I have to work and I totally don't want to. I have a number of days off this week and next, and am trying to take advantage of the time off by knocking off projects as best I can. I want to get canning supplies so I'm ready to get to it when fruit and vegetables start coming into season. There are a few recipes I want to make, including ginger syrup for homemade ginger soda, and a big batch of simple syrup for iced tea and lemonade (this will require massive sugar purchasing, as the baking push of April/May has left me with very little). I cut out another dress today and can get most of it done before I can get a zipper to finish it. I have enough of that particular fabric to make a skirt and another three dresses (so much of it!). I have to organise my sewing supplies in general because I've been looking for bias tape for a few days with no luck (and I know I have two packs of it). The hideous dress is as done as it's going to get, so it'll go into rotation this week.

My friend Heather asked if I want to go to the enormous Fabricland in Surrey on Thursday for a big, weird Thursday-only sale (50-70% off!), so we're going to check it out. I'm fearful, if only because I have no idea how much more fabric I'm going to wind up buying. I can't not buy fabric. I have six cuts waiting to be turned into dresses; how much more can I buy? This isn't even counting the cuts in boxes that I got over the last couple years before I banned myself from buying fabric. I found an entire box of Repro Depot fabrics that I intended to use for skirts; that alone would mean another 8 or 9 skirts!

These things make me realise how neglectful and lazy I've been the last couple of years. I should have been sewing my ass off instead of worrying about school and finding work and the like. Even baking could have been replaced by sewing, to a point. Sigh.

With my tidying of last week, I unearthed a couple of White Spot coupons that I need to use/get rid of by the end of June. The Giants did well for a couple of games I went to and White Spot gave "free appetizer with an entrée" coupons whenever the Giants scored 6 goals or more. Anyone feel like visiting White Spot in the next week or so?